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I am getting sick of pop-ups and bat slams.

This goes back to my ongoing criticisms of Craig Monroe: he talks like he’s still in the clubhouse, using clubhouse nicknames for the players, which makes me roll my eyes; he’s a “let’s go, boys!” rooter behind the mic, which makes me roll my eyes; and he’s basically a PR manager for the players, spinning anything that’s suboptimal into bland positives because hey, he’s gotta be around those guys the next day, so he's gotta watch what he says. Actually, "'he's gotta watch what he says" may not be even exactly true. Maybe he doesn't have to watch what he says at all because he's been steeped in elite jockocracy since probably at least high school, with all the language and thought processes attendant to it, so he's probably hard-wired to say the thing that most supports the guys. Either way, it's pretty amateurish.

Well, if the hitters can't hit you in, I guess you have to pray for the pitchers to wild-pitch you in.

Has anyone established the over-under on when Lorenzen goes on the IL with a shoulder injury? He has missed 68 and 107 days in each of the last two years with that. Let's say fifth inning. Who wants that action? 😏

Just remember: this year is nothing like now or never. This year is more like, "Not now—later." Yeah, I know it's been like that since 2016, but the difference is that now, there's a real plan. To the degree we can win with what we have, it's great. But we need to get used to the idea that what we have now is what we're going to have for the rest of the year. Do not expect any future hopes to come back this year and dominate, or maybe even come back this year at all. Right now, in 2023, the important moves are those happening behind the scenes, not on the field. Zen.

Lol, I finally caved and downloaded the MyATT app, I logged in, and I get this: And you can’t navigate into account settings because it’s all blank screens there, too. Totally about completely ****ed up.

I just tried it on my own DDG browser—same thing. So the problem’s on the server side and not the client side.

Welp …

Man, you have definitely been born again lib! 💀

Thanks for taking care of that. And you’re wrong on everything else. 😁

Shut up, you delusional, drugged-up, anti-American foreigner, you.

How about you go through the long list of everyone here who knows Biden is doing is a great job and tell us which label applies to each of us?

Yes it does. Maddening.

The other thing that Biden has is a competent team of policy wonks who know the system and know how to get things done, and can serve as valuable second opinions that eventually land them on the right solution. Trump and his team were a bunch of bumbling, stumbling outsider bulls barreling through the china shop in a bid for self-enrichment.

Trump himself most if not all of that resistance.

I don’t know, I don’t think Harris would want to start the clock ticking on a 21-year-old just to keep us from losing 100 games this year.

Whom should we go after, and whom should we offer in trade for them?

I guess you get what you pay for, right? I feel the same way with AT&T. Super reliable, blazing fast, pricy as ****. I wanted a Cadillac, I’m paying for a Cadillac. The main thing I hate is, because I also subscribe to DirecTV, they have consolidated login credentials for each into a single U/P, so no matter whether I try to log into DirecTV or Uverse to get an account overview, it takes me to DirecTV without giving me the choice. I think it’s because they are one of those companies that are trying to migrate users away from PCs—or more specifically, away from web browsers—and onto mobile apps to manage everything, probably because mobile OS is harder to hack or to work around the process they want to track you into.

So the one thing we thought TORK! could actually do, pick it with his glove, I guess we can’t even rely on that anymore. He doesn’t do that, he’s a dead loss at first.

Oh my god I saw Miggy hit a 400-foot single live!

Oh my god I saw TORK! steal a base live!

The first pitch in the storied career of Reese Olson. IMG_9748.mov

Lol I just came across this article in the Sporting News from 1955. Everything new is old again.

O'Lantern was pitching in the Aussie league at age 16 with guys on average ten years older. This could be interesting.